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Title: Suggest best Airflow design
Post by: bughatti on March 13, 2017, 03:57:33 AM
So I have settled on a design for my rigs and started to build a small piece of it.  I am limited on space and amps(growth).  Reading the forums I know alot of home users will use their garage for an open air flow design but I dont think they have kids lol.  My kids are always playing and I am always cleaning dust, dirt and spiders out of my garage.  I have a small room in my basement that I built as a bedroom years ago when I decided to finish my unfinished basement.  The room is roughly 12 x 12 with the added benefit of a storm window that is roughly 22 in wide x 48 in tall.  

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With what I have now I tried to build out a box type setup with foam board surrounding the rack but the 2 window fans I have only do 400CFM max each and it just wasn't enough.  I just ordered a 2400 CFM fan on amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002AGZUMA/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 which should fit my 22in window with minimal cutting on the fan unit.  The idea I have now is to mirror the rack on the left with another on the right.  I will have the middle shelf and the bottom shelf on both sides will 4 rigs each.  Once done this should give me a total of 16 rigs with 220 that should roughly pull 96 amps from my 200 amp breaker box.  Just need to make sure I don't turn on the Stove, dryer and ac at the same time lol.  Its really pushing it so I might not build 16 rigs to be cautious but we will see.  The idea I have now is to install 2 x 2400 cfm fans in the storm window and have 4 box fans on each shelf forcing air to the middle isle.  Then I can build out a box type foam board setup around both racks and have a door to the middle isle with 3 fans on it pushing air to the storm window.  This is the only way I can see building a cold/hot isle system with the room I have to work with.


Would love some thoughts and suggestions!

Happy mining all!



Title: Re: Suggest best Airflow design
Post by: maleemk on March 13, 2017, 06:53:04 AM
Respect Man, respect. Love your current setup.


Title: Re: Suggest best Airflow design
Post by: coinbeast on March 13, 2017, 12:27:48 PM
I understand your pain. I had the same problem mining bitcoin. I ended up making a large enclosure to house all of my miners. I then put the A/C I wanted to use in my boys room and cut out a 200 square inch by 6 inch deep piece of evaporative cooling panel and used my antminer s9's strong fans to pull air out of the enclosure. I tell no lie, I swear. We recently had 2 115 degree days and my miners where around 194. Where I live has very low humidity in summer and the only things I have had trouble with are the stupid bitmain 1600w PSU's which are just plain dumb and don't last 12 months.